Essays about: "collective agency"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 90 essays containing the words collective agency.

  1. 6. At the Heart of the Transition? Making Sense of Agency, Policy, and Post-Politics within Just Transition in Scotland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Josefina Marklund; [2023]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Just Transition; Agents of Change; Scotland; Post-Politics; Governance;

    Abstract : Since the establishment of Scotland’s Climate Change Act, principles of just transition have been statutory and guiding the implementation of several policies on the area. Such policies have laid the foundation for collaborative governance efforts, that invites state and non-state partners to engage on the political arena. READ MORE

  3. 7. Embodying the transformation: An exploration of the role of art-based approaches in achieving a just and sustainable city through citizen participation in Malmö

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Rabea Sorka Sophie Tzschabran; [2023]
    Keywords : sustainability science; creative placemaking; experiential learning; inner transformation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The exposure of societies to climate change requires cities to adequately respond to increasing environmental pressures while ensuring the well-being of citizens. Here, sustainable urban planning is an important tool. READ MORE

  4. 8. Between hope and resignation. Three collective initiatives on climate change’s understandings of agency for societal transformation.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Lisa Conzemius; [2023]
    Keywords : Sustainability Science; social change; structure agency; collective action; anti-capitalism; radical change; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Addressing climate change will entail groups of people working together to bring about changes in fundamental societal structures. This research investigates how the members of three collective initiatives on climate change in Sweden envision the process of change, based on their understandings of structures and agency. READ MORE

  5. 9. "We are not leaving." Tunisian civil society organisations in the context of democratic backsliding.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Linnea Bernö; [2023]
    Keywords : democratic backsliding; civil society; civil society organisations; Tunisia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Recent decades have seen the emergence of a global trend of democratic backsliding, in which authoritarianism is gaining traction, leading to a weakening of democratic practices, institutions, governance, and norms. Interestingly, this trend is noticeable in Tunisia, which just over a decade ago experienced a political revolution and began a democratisation process in which civil society played a central role. READ MORE

  6. 10. WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT - A STUDY ON THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WIDOWS IN NAIROBI, KENYA

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Kajsa Lindström; [2023]
    Keywords : Widowhood; Women’s Empowerment; Gender Equality; Kenya; Power Structures.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As international actors and public policies have centered the ambition of gender equity, empowerment has become a buzzword within international development. With its original conceptualization suggesting a process of redefining the structures of power, feminist scholars have noted how empowerment has been robbed of its central element; power. READ MORE